The opening pages of Sakamoto Days unfold with the ruthless efficiency of a master assassin at work: in just a handful of panels, author Yuto Suzuki shows us how twenty-two-year-old Taro Sakamoto, once Japan’s most “feared and revered” hit man, became Mr. Sakamoto, twenty-seven-year-old husband, father, and shopkeeper. Though Sakamoto seems content being the neighbhorhood jack-of-all-trades, his former associates still view him as a potential threat, dispatching Shin the Clairvoyant to kill him. Shin seems like he should have the upper hand–he’s younger, fitter, and, as his name suggests, capable of reading other people’s thoughts–but Sakamoto quickly subdues Shin with a bag of cough drops and a well-timed kick, leaving Shin gasping for breath. This initial encounter highlights Suzuki’s strengths and weaknesses as a storyteller. In the plus column is...
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